specialty

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English

Alternative forms

• speciality (Commonwealth)

Etymology

specialize +‎ -ty

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈspɛʃəlti/, SAMPA: /"spES@lti:/

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Noun

specialty (plural specialties)

1. (North America) That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.

   They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.

Related terms

• specialist
• subspecialty
• subspecialist

Translations

That in which one specializes

Arabic: اختصاص (ixtiʂāʂ) m. Armenian: մասնագիտություն (hy) (masnagitut’yun) Catalan: especialitat (ca) f. Chinese: 擅長, 擅长 (shàncháng) Dutch: specialiteit f. Finnish: erikoisala, spesialiteetti French: spécialité (fr) f. German: Spezialität (de) f. Greek: ειδικότητα (el) (eidikótita) f. Hungarian: különlegesség (hu), specialitás (hu) Icelandic: sérréttur m.

Italian: specialità (it) f. Japanese: 専門 (せんもん, semmon) Korean: 특산물 (teuksanmul) Norwegian: spesialitet Persian: تخصص Polish: specjalność f., specjalizacja f. Portuguese: especialidade (pt) f. Russian: специальность (spetsiál’nost’) f. Spanish: especialidad (es) f. Swedish: specialitet c., specialité c.